Silly Laws

Ok so its personal rant time, last year I purchased a Leatherman Wave multi-tool with intent to have it as an EDC (Every Day Carry) knife, I knew that to be legal it had to be Under 3 inches, fair enough i thought, a 3 inch blade is adequate for most tasks. The Leatherman Wave is just under 3 inches, perfect knife for EDC.

Well thats what I thought anyway, I’m not one for reading news but m increasingly aware of the media talking about knife crime whilst listening to Radio 1. I decided to look up the exact law on them and then came to realise that my EDC knife was infact illegal.

Our law states that an EDC knife has to be under 3 inches, folding, and non locking. Bugger! Now why the hell does it make any difference! You could kill a person with any size blade and with a folding knife. So why can’t you have a locking one?

What our thick goverment does’t seem to understand, If somebody is going to stab someone, they dont give a shit about the law in the first place, And they have to have the will to be able to do it. It’s the person thats the problem not the blade, You could stab somone with a chop stick. Infact, I believe the majority of stabbings that occure are from a £1 kitchen knife from a supermarket.

So now I need to find a way of modifying my Leatherman to make it non-locking. I will probably update about how I do it.